Expressionism and Gender Conference

Thursday, 19 and Friday, 20 March 2009

Co-ordinator: Frank Krause (Goldmiths, University of London)

Programme

Thursday, 19 March 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House

10.00 Registration

10.30 Welcome

10.45 Katharina Sykora (Brunswick): XXY. The Sex of the City. Structuring and Gesturing Gender in Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Berlin Street Scenes

11.30 Andreas Kramer (London): The Traffic of Gender in Expressionist Prose

12.15 Discussion

12.30 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15 Elza Adamowicz (London): Dada's Masks: Beyond Gender?

15.00 Richard Murphy (Sussex): Expressionist Film and Gender

15.45 Discussion

16.00 Tea

16.30 Christiane Schönfeld (Galway): The Prostitute in Expressionist Literature and Visual Arts

17.15 Discussion

17.30 Sherry

Friday, 20 March 2009
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House

10.30 Coffee

10.45 Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter): Die (Ohn-)Macht der Frauen: Heinrich Manns Der Untertan und Professor Unrat

11.30 Christine Kanz (Los Angeles/Marburg): Gebärphantasien von Männern in Kunst, Literatur und Film zur Zeit des Expressionismus

12.15 Discussion

12.30 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.15 Günter Rinke (Flensburg): Geschlechtersymbolik in Ernst Tollers Revolutionsdramen

15.00 Frank Krause (London): Gerettete Mütterlichkeit: Ambivalente Geschlechter-Inszenierungen bei von Unruh, Brenck-Kalischer, Kaiser und Kokoschka

15.45 Closing Discussion

16.00 Wine

Further Information and Registration Details

To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 6 March 2009.

Conference Fees

2 Days
£50.00
£45.00
Reduced Rate
£30.00
Student Rate

1 Day
£30.00
£25.00
Reduced Rate
£20.00
Student Rate

Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only

Registration form
How to find us
Where to stay

Jane Lewin

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

University of London School of Advanced Study

Room ST 272, Senate House

Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966

Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk